Syrian rebels claim to have captured a fifth city ... that it’s “pretty much the endgame for Assad” if the rebels take Homs. “Once they get Homs, then really Damascus is cut off and ...

Syrian rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs early on Sunday after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread as ...

Up to 10,000 fighters lent muscle during the overthrow of the Assad regime. But their hard-line interpretations of Sunni Islam make them a liability for the new rulers.

The rebels’ rapid advance from their strongholds in northern Syria has seen them take the strategic cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, as government forces melted away. Earlier, rebels said they ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP): Islamist-led ... had captured the strategic city of Homs, on the way to the capital. The defence ministry earlier denied that rebels had entered Homs, describing the ...

The Islamist-led rebels were at the gates of Syria's Homs, a war monitor said, after wresting other key cities from government control. In little over a week, the offensive has seen Syria's second ...

Now the focus is on whether the transfer of power from the Assad government to the rebel forces will take place peacefully ... and eastern Syria. Syrian rebels in Homs celebrate the departure ...

Homs is free" and "Long live Syria and down with Bashar al-Assad". Rebels fired into the air in celebration, and youths tore down posters of the Syrian president, whose territorial control has ...

In a statement, the CENTCOM said its strikes were aimed to ensure that the Islamic State does not take advantage ... said on Sunday after rebel fighters overthrew Syrian President Bashar al ...

PREMIUM Foreign Jihadists Helped Syria’s Rebels Take Power. Now They’re a Problem ... The attacks occurred in a coastal area home to Syria’s Alawites, a minority group to which the Assad ...